Time runs out on RAE options
Researchers are due to discover next week how much they will be funded following the research assessment exercise. Funding chiefs are considering several options that could penalise performance...
Researchers are due to discover next week how much they will be funded following the research assessment exercise. Funding chiefs are considering several options that could penalise performance...
A leisure technology levy could help cut financial barriers to access, says Gordon Marsden. "Wider and wider still" rightly remains the thrust of this government's policy for higher education. But to...
Academic trade unions have rebuffed a move by employers to reopen pay negotiations, refusing to put planned industrial action on hold unless vice-chancellors put a "substantive offer on the table"....
The Government will fail in its aim of creating a learning society unless it goes well beyond the Dearing recommendations on part-timers, the secretary of the Labour backbench education and...
If the Labour front bench wants advice on A level reform, it need look no further than the chair of its backbench education committee for some informed opinion. John Gunnell, 63, member for Morley...
School-leavers will face tougher competition for university places as access to higher education is widened, a member of the Commons select committee on education warned this week. Gordon Marsden,...
I was glad to see, after all the lurid headlines over the Laura Spence case, that The THES (June 2) carried some robust good sense and proportion, including Geraint Davies's measured Why I... (...
The government has bowed to pressure to give higher education a greater say in planning post-16 education, after initially excluding it from its Learning and Skills Bill. Lifelong learning minister...
With a select committee about to start looking into HE, Gordon Marsden calls for an RAE that rewards all-round excellence. New century, new research assessment exercise. But will the 2001 RAE do the...
MPs could influence the government's inquiry into top-up fees and university funding with their own investigation of student finance. The education and employment sub-committee announced this week...
Labour's anti-top-up campaigner to lock horns with the more pragmatic Lib Dem chair of new body overseeing higher education. Zoe Corbyn writes. Two MPs with key roles in a new parliamentary committee...
Attempts to overturn environmental sciences' dire performance in the research assessment exercise have been dropped after the Higher Education Funding Council for England admitted shredding all...
Malcolm Wicks MP (Labour, Croydon North), 51, former social policy lecturer at Brunel University and fellow of York University from 1968 to 1970, has been appointed chairman of the Commons education...
Funding parity for university teaching and research, loans for part-time higher education students and free tuition in further education are just three of the radical proposals in a new book by...
A bid to bring a sense of community to American students could work well in the UK, writes Gordon Marsden. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." President...